I’m mostly a comfort food person too. Sometimes I take a pork roast and spice rub with a touch of brown sugar in the crock pot. Sometimes use some jelly-whatever I happen to have on hand and opened.
I saw a quick and easy recipe on the TV this week, that I am going to fix for my daughter’s birthday next week.
STRAWBERRY SPARKLE CAKE
Take an angel food cake(buy it or make it), and slice off the top about 1 inch down(horizontal slice).
Then make two parallelvertical cuts in middle of the cake, and pull out pieces of cake to hollow out a trench all the way around the cake so that there is a trench to spoon the filling in.
The filling is a packet of Strawberry Jello dissolved in hot water according to packet directions. Then add a bag of frozen sliced strawberries to the mix.
When this has thickened a bit and no longer hot, spoon it into the trench encircling the middle of the cake.
Put the 1 inch layer back on top of the cake so that the filling is hidden. Then cover the entire cake with whipped cream (or cool whip).
Put into the refrigerator till ready to serve.
I do something a little like that. I bake a white cake in a 9 x 12 pan. While it is still hot I spread a pint of strawberry freezer jam on top. You can use an ice pick to make holes in the cake so it will absorb more of the jam. Let it cool and serve with whipped cream.
I found a strawberry jello frosting recipe online this week that might put the birthday cake over the top:
Jello Frosting frosts 24 cupcakes or 9x13 cake
3 oz package Jello (not sugar free, check ounces)
2/3 C sugar
1 egg white
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 C boiling water (boiling to dissolve sugar)
Put everything except boiling water in bowl. Turn mixer to high & add in boiling water. Whip on high for exactly 5 mins.